Central's Zambia team ready to go!

Longmont's Central Presbyterian Church is sending a short term mission team to Chawama, Zambia July 16-29th. Chawama is a compound just outside of the capital city Lusaka.
The team will work with the Presbyterian Church of Chawama, their school and AIDs volunteers as they move towards the possibility of a long term partnership.

This mission team is just one of the ongoing African missions supported by the churches of this Presbytery. Fort Collins First Presbyterian, Yuma 1st Presbyterian and others also are working to help those in poverty or that are hungry. If you know of a mission, and would like to report it here...please contact me or place a comment on this blog post!

Umuntu Ngamuntu Ngabantu !

The importance of Mothers...
I was preparing for a children's sermon at my home church and the scripture chosen for Mother's day was 2 Timothy 1:4-12. I was rereading vr 5- "I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you."
While researching, I ran across an article by Lamin Sanneh, professor of missions and world Christianity and history at Yale Divinity School. In his paper Naming and the Act of Faith he talks about the critical way our faith is passed from others to us, and connects us as people.
He describes a Bantu proverb Umuntu, ngamuntu, ngabanu - a person is a person because of other persons. "Faith connects us with others" Sanneh says. So when we work with hunger we are profoundly impacting our fellow Christians.
In my work with hunger, I have seen a lot of actions of faith. Speaking truth to power, caring for those suffering injustice and feeding the hungry. If we were Timothy's family, what types of examples of faith would we be showing our grandchildren's children?